Philip Baiden, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, School of Social Work. He has extensive research expertise in adverse childhood experiences, adolescent health risk behaviors, and mental health outcomes among adolescents. His substantive research program has focused on the identification of risk and protective factors for suicidal behaviors among minority youth, with an emphasis on Black sexual minority youth. Drawing on intersectionality and minority stress theory, Dr. Baiden seeks to investigate the intersection of sexual orientation and race/ethnicity on suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among youth and develops culturally specific interventions to prevent suicidal behaviors among Black youth.
Mark S. Kaplan is a Research Professor of
Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and is a faculty
affiliate at the California Center for Population Research and the Alcohol
Research Group. He received his doctorate in public health from the University
of California, Berkeley. He holds master’s degrees in social work and public
health with postdoctoral training in preventive medicine at the University of
Southern California. His research, funded by the National Institutes of Health
and private foundations, has focused on using population-wide data to
understand suicide risk factors among veterans, seniors, and other vulnerable
populations. His other research interests include the social determinants of
health and factors associated with thriving in older adulthood. He received a
Distinguished Investigator Award from the American Foundation for Suicide
Prevention.
